Policing students and testocracy
While the individuals responsible for brutality at Spring Valley High School need to be held accountable, we also need to see the context in which this type of response to students is systemic within #testocracy. There is increased pressure for compliance in drill and kill test prep and producing the data on test scores. This is apparent in public schools and also in charters that get pushed by billionaires and corporations using testing as a tool to attack public schools and privatize them.
Look at examples of the school to prison pipeline in Chicago where Rahm promoted one charter that doled out over $400,000 in fines to students for things like chewing gum or slouching.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/education/in-chicago-noble-charter-schools-punish-with-cash-fines.html?_r=0
Also the Moskowitz’s ‘Suspension’ Academy’s Code of Misconduct
(Success Academy) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/moskowitzs-suspension-aca_b_8388616.html
(Success Academy) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/moskowitzs-suspension-aca_b_8388616.html
And At KIPP, “they wouldn’t have desks at first” and then they are “chained to a desk 10 hours a day”http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2014/07/at-kipp-they-wouldnt-have-desks-at.html
This is good background on Fields, Spring Valley High School and other incidents involving SROs.http://www.attn.com/stories/3856/high-school-police-officers-spring-valley?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=internal
Also many more connections from a previous collection herehttp://itspeoplepower.tumblr.com/post/107889945593/blacklivesmatter-racist-testing-and-prison
